why doesn’t family law court care about immigration status?
confused asked:
I posted a question yesterday about how can an illegal immigrant collect child support and I think every one misunderstood the question. I am not trying to collect child support I pay child support to an illegal alien and at the time we got married I had no idea he was illegal. It wasn’t until the divorce and we asked questions in the interrogatories that I found out all the information I addressed in the previous post. All discovery. So anybody have any answers for me different than I received as I am not crying over trying to collect child support, I have a job and do support my son. Just wondering why immigration status is not an issue for family courts, even the attorney generals office says he falls under immigrations jurisdiction and they can’t do anything about the social security fraud or tax evasion. He is not a U.S citizen. So basically illegal immigrants don’t have to abide my U.S. law.
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I posted a question yesterday about how can an illegal immigrant collect child support and I think every one misunderstood the question. I am not trying to collect child support I pay child support to an illegal alien and at the time we got married I had no idea he was illegal. It wasn’t until the divorce and we asked questions in the interrogatories that I found out all the information I addressed in the previous post. All discovery. So anybody have any answers for me different than I received as I am not crying over trying to collect child support, I have a job and do support my son. Just wondering why immigration status is not an issue for family courts, even the attorney generals office says he falls under immigrations jurisdiction and they can’t do anything about the social security fraud or tax evasion. He is not a U.S citizen. So basically illegal immigrants don’t have to abide my U.S. law.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
You should have checked this out better before you got married. He may be illegal, but the child isn’t if he was born here. Why don’t you take custody & ship your ex back to where he came from?
April 15th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Because the sole concern of Family court is the well being of the child.
Child custody and child support are issues for State courts. Immigration status is a Federal issue. State courts have no jurisdiction over immigration matters, and Federal courts have no jurisdiction over child support matters.
Richard
April 16th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
im sorry but live in uk and he would have been tracked down and prosecuted ..sometimes wonder at usa gov laws thought they would have protected their citizens more ..that is really sad fact ..beyond belief even
April 17th, 2009 at 8:04 am
The Family court system is for family issues solely. They have no jurisdiction on Federal matters. Their concern is for the child.
If you want him deported or otherwise charged for tax evasion of SS fraud, you need to notify those agencies, who will be VERY interested.
In short, he does have to obey US law, but the right authorities have to become involved.